Fine. " Magnus stood up. "But," he added, pausing by Alec's chair and leaning in close to him, "you are not trivial. " Alec flushed. "If you say so," he said. "I say so," said Magnus, and he turned to follow Isabelle out of the room.
I used to want you so bad, I'm so through with that because honestly you turned out to be the best thing I never had!
Phillip looked to Eloise. "Perhaps introductions are in order?" "Oh," Eloise said, gulping. "Yes, of course. These are my brothers. " "I'd gathered," he said, his voice as dry as dust. She shot him an apologetic look, which, Phillip thought, was really the least she could do after nearly getting him tortured and killed, then turned to her brothers and motioned to each in turn, saying, "Anthony, Benedict, Colin, Gregory. These three," she added, motioning to A, B, and C, "are my elders. This one"—she waved dismissively at Gregory—"is an infant.
The writer's no different. When he's rejected, that paper is rejected, in a sense, a sizeable fragment of the writer is rejected as well. It's a piece of himself that's being turned down.
A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.
Introversion- along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness- is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology. Introverts living in the Extrovert Ideal are like women in a man's world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are. Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.
I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.
I was discouraged when I read that [Senate Minority Leader Mitch] McConnell said that Trans-Pacific Partnership was dead, but then I was told he turned around and said, "No, it's not. "
I thought, I'm just going to give as much attention and curiosity to acting as I did to like making my coffee in the morning and see how that feels, rather than resisting it and angsting, and it turned out it felt great.
I've turned down shows offering large amounts of money.
A Polish man in a helicopter. Goes up to 800 feet. Down it comes! What happened? "It got chilly up there, so I turned off the fan!"
If 6 turned out to be 9, I don't mind.
I keep my mouth shut now. I've turned into a professional coward.
You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special.
Homosexuals are delicate and bad poetry is delicate and [Allen] Ginsberg turned the tables by making homosexual poetry strong poetry, almost manly poetry; but in the long run, the homo will remain the homo and not the poet.
When we were together, she turned me completely inside out.
When he pulled back, Blay frowned. "You're shaking. " Was it possible he wasn't imagining this? "Am I?" "Yes. " "I don't care. I love you. I love you so damned much, and I"m sorry that I wasn't male enough to admit--" Blay stopped him with a kiss. "You're plenty male enough now--the rest of it's in the past. " "I just. . . God, I really am shaking, aren't I? Yeah. But it's okay--I've got you. " Qhuinn turned his face into one of the male's palms. "You always have. You've always had me. . . and my heart. My soul. Everything.
Man is born with his face turned away from God. When he truly repents, he is turned right round toward God; he leaves his old life.
I love movies and I like a lot of good television. At the end of the project, I don't care if they changed [it from the book], I just want to look at it and go, "I loved that. That really turned out well. "
Walter turned on the radio: electric violins wailing, twisted romance, the four-square beat of heartbreak. Trite suffering, but suffering nonetheless. The entertainment business. What voyeurs we have all become.